HQ Transport Command, Signals Branch 1948,
Group Captain Shirley is seated 4th from the left in the second row

Photo courtesy - Maureen Teulier

xx xxx 1948:
Attended Joint Services Staff College

6 Nov 1950:
Director of Radio Engineering.

18 Sep 1950:
ADC to the King

6 Feb 1952 – 1 Jan
1953: ADC to the Queen

xx xxx 1956: Attended Imperial Defence College

1 Jan 1957:
AOC/Commandant, RAF Technical College, Henlow

1 Mar 1959: Senior Technical Staff Officer, HQ Fighter Command.

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1 Feb 1964:
AOC-in-C, Signals Command.

7 May 1966:
Relinquished command of Signals Command

At Cranwell he attained the
rank of Flight Cadet Corporal and was awarded the Hyde Thompson and Humanistics
Trophies. He was the first ex-apprentice to become an ADC to the Monarch and
the only Flowerdown graduate to have attended the Imperial Defence College.

Retired on account of medical
unfitness for air force service and died after a long illness.